Split Stay-Can't Book for Whole Reservation?

[sagosto]

Tip: in this situation book a single stay that overlaps both parts of your split stay. In your example just book any Disney resort for the dates November 9-16 and cancel the resort stay after securing your ADRs.

This will cause the system to allow booking for both parts of your split stay.

To avoid dealing with points chaos, would you just make any typical cash reservation to cancel?

 

[wdwfan94]

To avoid dealing with points chaos, would you just make any typical cash reservation to cancel?

Yes - just a cash room-only will do.

 

[Mle8308]

Did you call the Dining Reservation line?

I called 407-939-3463 and they were happily able to do it.

We not able to do it for me, either! You got lucky.

 

[maleficent55]

One other thing to note ask about regarding Lightning Lanes and split stays-- the booking window for LL would be 7 days before the first day of which ever hotel reservation your park tickets are attached to. Correct?

For most people, no big whoop, but if your park tickets are attached to your 2nd hotel reservation in a split stay, instead of the first hotel, the valid dates for the tickets start the check-in day of the 2nd reservation, and 7 days before that day is when your LL booking window opens. In this case, the days of the 1st hotel stay are completely uninvolved in LL booking.

Just noting since there are idiosyncrasies w/ split stays for LL booking also, it's not just a blanket ability to book for the whole stay if you have a weird one-off case like this. We set our reservations up this way purposefully since we're doing 3 hotels over 10 days, but only a 4-day park ticket and we wanted our tickets to be valid in the later part of our trip.

Just to clarify, if I had 3 nights at the first hotel and 5 nights at the next hotel I would want my tickets to be attached to the first? What if both stays are room only and the tickets are purchased separately?

 

[lanejudy]

One other thing to note ask about regarding Lightning Lanes and split stays-- the booking window for LL would be 7 days before the first day of which ever hotel reservation your park tickets are attached to. Correct?

The only tickets "attached" to a hotel reservation are package tickets. And package tickets cannot be used prior to the check-in date for the package -- so they aren't valid for the 1st stay if the package is the 2nd stay.

Just to clarify, if I had 3 nights at the first hotel and 5 nights at the next hotel I would want my tickets to be attached to the first? What if both stays are room only and the tickets are purchased separately?

If buying a package, you need the tickets on the first reservation if you intend to visit the parks during that part of your stay. If both reservations are room-only, you buy tickets with a start date. LL booking still opens based on your 1st resort reservation check-in date.